Word: daughter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Angeles, Charlie Chaplin, who will be 60 in April, and fourth wife Oona, 23, were expecting their third child this spring, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. That would make Charlie's fifth (not counting Joan Berry's daughter, whom he supports but denies...
...Flavor of Greenwich. When Juliana was 26, she met Prince Bernhard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld, a charming young man-about-Europe who worked for I. G. Farben in Paris. Declared Wilhelmina: "This is not the marriage of The Netherlands to Germany [but] the marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy of her love." The story goes that when a German diplomat suggested how sensible it would be if The Netherlands indeed joined Germany, Juliana remarked: "Oh, I think Mama is too old to rule such a large country as Germany...
...Hugh and daughter-in-law Dorothy are bold enough to criticize Grandma's work. Hugh wanted her to leave a recent landscape empty of figures, and she promised she would, "But the next thing I knew 'twas full of people. I had to fill it up. I guess I wanted company, some commotion." Her daughter-in-law says Grandma's interest in painting is what keeps her young. Grandma disagrees. "I don't know as it done any more good than if I went down and cleaned the cellar...
Soap Operas: "The plot usually concerns a character named Just Simple Sam, who-although his house is on fire, his daughter has just eloped with a man who was seen coming out of a Henry Wallace rally . . . and he has had an automobile accident that has broken his back, fractured his skull and crushed both legs-is still able to crawl to the microphone and help the announcer explain the big contest and where you mail the box tops...
...Gamesman: 'I was fortunate enough to meet your daughter on Sunday.' " Layman: 'Yes, indeed - I know. She told me.' " Gamesman: 'What wonderful hair - a real Titian.'" Layman: 'Oh - no - that can't have been my daughter - that was Ethel Baird.' " Gamesman: 'Really. But I thought I was talking to your - ' " Layman: 'You were, but that was earlier on.'" Gamesman: 'Was it - but what was the colour of your daughter's hair?" Layman: 'Well-a sort of brown-' Gamesman: "Of course. Of course...